Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the man.
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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
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Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.
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I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
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Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.
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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
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We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
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Realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
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A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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One should always be a little improbable.
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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
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My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
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One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.
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There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.
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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.